The Attorney General, Dr. Avichai Mandelblit’s claims that the ICC has no jurisdiction in Palestine, rely on intentional misquotation, disregard for international law and an absurd misrepresentation of reality. Contrary to the AG’s position, the ICC has jurisdiction to carry out the necessary investigation of the situation in Palestine. Dr. Avichai Mandelblit is the highest...Read More

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, has warned that the recently-announced US plan "is not a recipe for a just and durable peace but rather endorses the creation of a 21st century Bantustan in the Middle East" consisting of "scattered archipelagos...Read More

Israeli soldiers killing, injuring or beating a Palestinians: a collection of testimonies for a single instance each year since 1989. The report traces the development of each case describing its whitewash by the state’s legal branches. The violence and its whitewashing are the two remedies that make up the occupation. The two are closely intertwined:...Read More

"Israel has created an institutionalised regime of racial domination and oppression over the Palestinian people as a whole, using the strategic fragmentation of the indigenous Palestinian people and of the oPt as a main tool for the maintenance of its apartheid regime, which predates its ratification of ICERD and is rooted in the foundational laws...Read More

This report, which was published by Adalah provides insight into Israel’s complete failure to acknowledge, let alone uphold, obligations established by Themes 7 and 8 of the ICERD, a UN convention approved by the UN General Assembly (under resolution 2106) in 1965.Read More

Demonstrating Israel’s use of security excuses to deliberately implement a policy that makes life unbearable for the Palestinian residents of Hebron’s Old City, in an effort to drive them from their homes. The policy imposed two administrative rules in one city, since the massacre of Palestinians by Baruch Goldstein 25 years ago – enabling a...Read More

Israel’s Supreme Court have validated the state’s planning apparatus in the West Bank, enabling it to continue implementing illegal policies. Over and over again, the decisions ignore the state’s planning apparatus’ almost absolute prohibition on Palestinian construction with the aim of taking as much Palestinian land as possible. A careful examination of hundreds of High...Read More

Israel has now constitutionally entrenched the homogenous ethnic sovereignty of the Jewish people with the passing of the Nation State Law on 19 July 2018. The law subordinates all Palestinian and other non-Jewish citizens without consent. It also enshrines into the fabric of Israeli statehood that only the Jewish people have the right to self-determination...Read More

In the heart of Jerusalem, Al Mascobiyeh represents the most notorious interrogation facility in the country. Generations of Palestinians have experienced its techniques of torture and dehumanisation. The report seeks to quantify the instances of torture, and mistreatment in the facility, using first hand accounts. A clear pattern is observed in regards to the systematic...Read More

Since the wave of protests began on 30 March 2018, near the Gaza-Israel ‘border’, the Israeli military has killed 32 Palestinians in Gaza, 26 of which are demonstrators, and injured more than 1,000 with live ammunition. Despite the heavy toll on deaths and permanent injuries, all state and military officials refuse to cancel the unlawful...Read More